Upgrades

Version Upgrades

RKE supports version upgrades by changing the image tags of the system-images.

For example, to change the deployed Kubernetes version, you update the rancher/hyperkube tag from v1.9.7 to v1.10.3 in the cluster.yml that was originally used to deploy your Kubernetes cluster.

Original YAML

system_images:kubernetes:rancher/hyperkube:v1.9.7

Updated YAML

system_images:kubernetes:rancher/hyperkube:v1.10.3

After updating your cluster.yml with the required changes, all you need to do is run rke up to upgrade Kubernetes.

$ rke up --config cluster.yml

First, RKE will use the local kube_config_cluster.yml to confirm the versions of the existing components in the Kubernetes cluster before upgrading to the latest image.

Note: RKE does not support rollback to previous versions.

Service Upgrades

Services can be upgraded by changing any of the services arguments or extra_args and running rke up again with the updated configuration file.

Note: The following arguments, service_cluster_ip_range or cluster_cidr, cannot be changed as any changes to these arguments will result in a broken cluster. Currently, network pods are not automatically upgraded.

Add-Ons Upgrades

As of v0.1.8, upgrades to add-ons are supported.

Add-ons can also be upgraded by changing any of the add-ons and running rke up again with the updated configuration file.